Wednesday, February 26, 2014

MYCENAE

First stop was just after crossing the Isthmus Canal (I have one picture from this stop and the rest are from Mycenae) to see how deep and narrow the canal is.  We could see one boat passing through with little room on either side…definitely amazing compared to the Cape Cod Canal!  Our professors also pointed out that people throughout the past few thousand years had tried to create this channel, and showed us the signs of previous attempts.  Very cool!
On the bus to Mycenae we passed by Mount Parnassus and through the region of Nemea, home to the Nemean Lion (one of Herakles’s famous labors) and the Nemea wine that Hannah and I got from wine George!
Next we toured the ancient site of Mycenae.  We saw Grave Circles A and B, although my class had visited the goods from these burials in Athens at the National Archaeological Museum before the trip, the shaft graves and tholos tombs typical of Mycenaen civilization.  One tholos tomb is named the Tomb of Clytemnestra, but it has nothing to do with her, just as the Treasury of Atreus does not necessarily have anything to do with him.
#1: View of the site of the Mycenaean city center.
#2: Vasso, the trip coordinator for CYA, standing just up one level from the site of the palace.  She is one of my favorite Greeks ever!
#3: The Treasury of Atreus.
#4: Tim, Kristin, Fiona and Lani at Mycenae.
#5: The Isthmus Canal at about 8:30am (we left Athens very early).
#6: With Fiona and Kristin at the Lion Gate!
#7:  Some friends standing on the mound of earth above the Treasury of Atreus.
#8: More friends in the entrance hallway to the Treasury of Atreus.
#9: The supposed “tomb of Clytemnestra.”
#10: Grave Circle A.

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